School system equally unfair to everyone

3:36 PM,
Jan. 20, 2014

Written by

Bob Magnus, Mars Hill

Lynn Michie's Jan. 12 guest column needs to be read by both legislators and voters. Another side of the issue is the fact that our divided school system is not only unfair to many in public education: It is unfair to everyone. Up until 1954, schools in many areas followed the "separate but equal" doctrine, but that was overthrown by "Brown vs. Board of Education." Just one year before that, as an undergraduate in college, I wrote a paper for my politics class that this divisive doctrine was totally false: "separate" cannot be "equal." In our present system, many students in all types of schools are ...